Due to the dengue outbreak in Zamboanga City, Mayor Celso Lobregat yesterday instructed the City Health Office to conduct a massive fumigation in all public and private schools in the city before the opening of classes for School Year 2012-2013 on June 4.

House Deputy Speaker and 1st District Representative Beng Climaco will be commissioned as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Philippine Army during formal donning rites set to be held at the Western Mindanao Command headquarters today, May 18.

The Zamboanga City sub-depot, a government-run storehouse where cheaper but good quality office supplies will be made available for local government units in Zamboanga Peninsula and nearby areas, will formally open on May 25.

The city government through the City Health Office (CHO) spearheaded last night the AIDS candlelight memorial at the R.T. Lim Boulevard in memory of those who passed away due to the dreaded HIV-AIDS.

Mayor Celso Lobregat yesterday afternoon led city and Philippine Air Force officials in the inauguration of the road concreting and open canal projects costing the city government P750,803.46 inside the Edwin Andrews Air Base (EAAB) in Barangay Sta. Maria, this city.

ZAMBOANGA CITY — The local government unit has ordered the city health office to conduct fumigation in private and public schools before the opening of classes on June 4 to stop the dengue epidemic here.

ZAMBOANGA CITY — The stakeholders of this southern port city will get their turn to exchange views anew with members of the government panel currently negotiating peace settlement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).

ZAMBOANGA CITY — Mayor Celso Lobregat on Wednesday afternoon led city and Philippine Air Force (PAF) officials in the inauguration of the road concreting and open canal projects costing the city government P750,803.46 inside the Edwin Andrews Air Base (EAAB) in Barangay Sta. Maria, three kilometers north of this city.

ZAMBOANGA CITY — Having an attractive and orderly airport can help increase investments and improve tourism, Director Teresita Socorro Ramos, Vice Chair of the Regional Development Council 9, said during the launching of the Zamboanga International Airport Interior Design Contest Tuesday morning.

ZAMBOANGA CITY — Residents of four remote municipalities in Maguindanao Province can now travel safely and efficiently to the main highway running from Makilala in North Cotabato to Tacurong City, thanks to a provincial road infrastructure project completed through a U.S.-Philippines partnership.

ZAMBOANGA CITY — After 36 days in captivity, Police Officer 2 (PO2) Faisal Juhaili of Tigbao police station in Zamboanga del Sur was finally freed by his captors on Tuesday afternoon.

ZAMBOANGA CITY — Mayor Celso Lobregat together with Vice Mayor Cesar Iturralde and some city councilors on Tuesday inaugurated the newly rehabilitated multi-purpose center amounting to more than P1.83 million in Boalan, eight kilometers east of this city.